“I have had the privilege of a career that allows me to travel a lot around the world. In these years of music and travel, I have experienced different cultural and academic realities; my first address outside Portugal was in the north of Chicago, in Evanston, as a master’s student at an American university. Since that moment I learned a lot, but I also realized – and critically observing the cultural and academic reality that I got to know – that the training I received in Portugal and, in particular, at the National Superior Orchestra Academy, was unique and at the level of the best schools all around the world.”